COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

Here’s the video of my recent speech at TEDxMarin.  The theme of the event was “Communication Revolution”.  The organizers invited me to speak about the future of television, social media and personal storytelling. Robert Tercek at TEDxMarin May 2011: “Reclaiming The Power of Personal Narrative” from Robert Tercek on Vimeo. TED talks are all about [...]

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In November 2010, I was invited to participate as a speaker and moderator at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City.   More than 2500 attendees, including hundreds of international delegates, attended the event.   We participated in workshops, discussions, exhibitions, demonstrations. I was the moderator of a discussion on the topic of Technology Aiding [...]

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While visiting Vancouver for the Merging+Media conference, I was invited to appear on “Urban Rush” a lively daytime talk show about media and entertainment.   The topic:  how traditional media companies must chase their audiences as they migrate to new platforms.   The proliferation of new devices and platforms makes this especially difficult for broadcasters [...]

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Last week I attended the Digital Directions conference hosted by Fairfax Media and X | Media Lab in Sydney.  A series of outstanding speakers, including Tim Wu, Gigi Wang, Kevin Anderson, Baratunde Thurston, Riyaad Minty, Anthony Rose and others shared their perspectives. My topic was “Coercion and Cooperation in the Second Century of Electronic Media.” [...]

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At CES 2011, I gave the opening address to a gathering of executives from the storage industry.  My talk, titled “Information Transformation”, provided examples and vivid metaphors to illustrate the size and scope of the massive change that is occurring right now.  The volume of information generated by our society is so vast that it [...]

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Today I will make an address at the Digital Directions conference, presented by Fairfax Digital in Sydney, Australia. My comments will focus on the collision between two distinctly different environments for innovation in the digital domain: closed and open systems. Or, as I prefer to think of them, the architecture of coercion and the architecture [...]

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Humanity+ is living up to the mission of raising awareness about the next frontier for information technology:  human biology.  But is the organization ready to take the next step in its own evolution? This weekend’s Humanity + conference at CalTech was satisfying, especially if you’ve been craving a hefty serving of scientific research combined with imaginative [...]

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While visiting Israel last week for the Journey Conference, I learned about some inspiring developments in the Middle East.  Israel is rocking! It was an illuminating experience for me.  In the USA, the mainstream media diet includes a steady supply of sensational stories about the Middle East, featuring suicide bombings, terrorism, rocket attacks and reprisals. [...]

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I agreed to participate at the Humanity+ summit this weekend at Harvard University despite the fact that it required me to duck out early from my 25th Reunion at Williams College. Why?I am fundamentally convinced that the Humanity+ movement represents the single biggest

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Carnival culture was on parade this week at CES. We’ve entered the Baroque phase of consumer electronics, wherein utterly unncessary techology is pumped up, supersized and repackaged with gimmicks in a desperate bid to garner consumer interest. It’s quite appropriate for CES to take place in Las Vegas, the Mecca of vulgarity , vanity and [...]

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